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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn MacCann, Associate Professor, University of Sydney The ability to understand emotions contributes almost as much to students’ grades as their IQ. Past studies show two personal qualities are important for student academic success – intelligence and conscientiousness. IQ scores explain about 15% of the differences between ... <a title="Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students’ academic success" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/understanding-emotions-is-nearly-as-important-as-iq-for-students-academic-success-131212/" aria-label="Read more about Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students’ academic success">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Arthure, PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University, Flinders University Archaeological research has uncovered the remains of a 19th-century Irish community beneath an otherwise ordinary paddock in rural South Australia. Fitting the clustered form of settlement known as a “clachan”, it’s the first to be identified in Australia. ... <a title="Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian field" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/unearthing-a-traditional-irish-village-that-lingered-in-a-south-australian-field-132344/" aria-label="Read more about Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian field">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Stevenson, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, UQ, The University of Queensland The Satyricon by Petronius is an unusual surviving text from the ancient world. It is not a work of history, nor a work of soaring epic poetry like Homer’s Iliad or Virgil’s Aeneid, ... <a title="Guide to the classics: Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/guide-to-the-classics-petroniuss-satyricon-sex-satire-and-naughty-boys-129351/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The coronavirus has moved to a new stage in Australia, with the first two cases of local transmission of the disease. The NSW government announced a 53-year-old Sydney health worker – who had not recently travelled abroad – had been ... <a title="First locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/first-locally-transmitted-covid-19-cases-in-australia-as-attorney-general-warns-drastic-legal-powers-could-be-used-132771/" aria-label="Read more about First locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The coronavirus has moved to a new stage in Australia, with the first two cases of local transmission of the disease. The NSW government announced a 53-year-old Sydney health worker – who had not recently travelled abroad – had been ... <a title="First locally-transmitted COV-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/first-locally-transmitted-cov-19-cases-in-australia-as-attorney-general-warns-drastic-legal-powers-could-be-used-132771/" aria-label="Read more about First locally-transmitted COV-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julaine Allan, Senior research fellow, Charles Sturt University On February 21 NSW Health issued a warning about methamphetamine and cocaine being contaminated with the dangerous opioid fentanyl. Several people who had taken these illicit stimulant drugs presented to Sydney hospitals with symptoms of opioid overdose, raising the ... <a title="The deadly opioid fentanyl is turning up in disguise on Sydney streets, making illicit drug use even riskier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/the-deadly-opioid-fentanyl-is-turning-up-in-disguise-on-sydney-streets-making-illicit-drug-use-even-riskier-132598/" aria-label="Read more about The deadly opioid fentanyl is turning up in disguise on Sydney streets, making illicit drug use even riskier">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Speck, Professor, Art History;, University of Adelaide Review: 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Monster Theatres The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art – now in its 30th year – has a tradition of measuring the pulse of contemporary art practice. This iteration is no different. Art ... <a title="A meeting of monsters at the Adelaide Biennial brings us closer to our fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/a-meeting-of-monsters-at-the-adelaide-biennial-brings-us-closer-to-our-fears-132753/" aria-label="Read more about A meeting of monsters at the Adelaide Biennial brings us closer to our fears">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney This week marks a new phase in the coronavirus crisis with the case count outside China accelerating sharply. China’s containment strategy bought global health authorities time to prepare, but failed to confine the outbreak to North-East Asia. In the ... <a title="We’re staring down the barrel of a technical recession as the coronavirus enters a new and dangerous phase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/were-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-technical-recession-as-the-coronavirus-enters-a-new-and-dangerous-phase-132752/" aria-label="Read more about We’re staring down the barrel of a technical recession as the coronavirus enters a new and dangerous phase">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenni Downes, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University Australia is still grappling with what to do with the glut of recyclable material after China closed most of its market to our recycling in 2018. Now the Victorian government has released the first major ... <a title="Four bins might help, but to solve our waste crisis we need a strong market for recycled products" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/four-bins-might-help-but-to-solve-our-waste-crisis-we-need-a-strong-market-for-recycled-products-132440/" aria-label="Read more about Four bins might help, but to solve our waste crisis we need a strong market for recycled products">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney This week marks a new phase in the coronavirus crisis with the case count outside China accelerating sharply. China’s containment strategy bought global health authorities time to prepare, but failed to confine the outbreak to North-East Asia. In the ... <a title="We’re staring down the barrel of a technical recession as the COVID-19 coronavirus enters a new and dangerous phase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/were-staring-down-the-barrel-of-a-technical-recession-as-the-covid-19-coronavirus-enters-a-new-and-dangerous-phase-132752/" aria-label="Read more about We’re staring down the barrel of a technical recession as the COVID-19 coronavirus enters a new and dangerous phase">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Peterie, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Between July 2018 and August 2019, the Home Affairs Department spent A$6.1m flying refugees, asylum seekers and other immigration detainees around Australia. This figure includes $5.7 million for charter flights and $400,000 for commercial flights with airlines like Qantas. ... <a title="‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/people-are-crying-and-begging-the-human-cost-of-forced-relocations-in-immigration-detention-132193/" aria-label="Read more about ‘People are crying and begging’: the human cost of forced relocations in immigration detention">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monique Mann, Senior lecturer, Deakin University You’d thinking flying in a plane would be more dangerous than driving a car. In reality it’s much safer, partly because the aviation industry is heavily regulated. Airlines must stick to strict standards for safety, testing, training, policies and procedures, auditing ... <a title="Airlines take no chances with our safety. And neither should artificial intelligence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/airlines-take-no-chances-with-our-safety-and-neither-should-artificial-intelligence-132580/" aria-label="Read more about Airlines take no chances with our safety. And neither should artificial intelligence">Read more</a>
